Penpals for Handwriting is a complete handwriting scheme for 3-11 year olds.

Term 1 1 Spelling - style for speed: -tion, -tious 2 Grammar - style for speed: antonyms 3 Grammar - style for speed: active and passive 4 Spelling - style for speed: -ence, -ent, -ance, -ant 5 Spelling - style for speed: -ise, -ice 6 Spelling - style for speed: looping from b 7 Spelling strategies - style for speed: syllabification 8 Presentation - different styles for different purposes: abbreviations 9 Grammar - spacing between words: informal and formal 10 Assessment Term 2 11 Improving handwriting - proportion: grammar cohesion and punctuation 12 Improving handwriting - proportion: grammar and spelling 13 Improving handwriting - spacing within words: punctuation hyphen 14 Improving handwriting - using the baseline: fronting adverbials 15 Improving handwriting - parallel ascenders and descenders: Spelling -ible, -able 16 Improving handwriting - closed and open letters: Spelling -ent, -ence, -ant, -ance 17 Improving handwriting fluency - grammar: subject and object noun phrases 18 Improving handwriting - pen breaks in longer words: colon, semi-colon and comma 19 Improving handwriting annotations - Grammar: ellipsis 20 Assessment Term 3 21 Handwriting for different purposes - grammar: conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions 22 Handwriting for different purposes - punctuation: parenthesis (dash, brackets, commas) 23 Handwriting for different purposes - grammar: verb tenses 24 Handwriting for different purposes - grammar: formal and informal synonyms 25 Handwriting for different purposes - grammar: punctuation and relative pronouns 26 Handwriting for different purposes - grammar: punctuation and main and subordinate clauses 27 Handwriting for different purposes - presentation: strategies for spelling 28 Handwriting for different purposes - Punctuation 29 Self-assessment 30 Certificate: practising patterns